Economic Observer reporter Qu YixianApril 19, Shanghai Health and Health Commission issued a notice, February 2022 From 0:00 on April 26 to 24:00 on April 18, 2022, 21,717 local confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia (including 21 severe cases) were treated in hospitals in Shanghai, and 10 died.
According to the Shanghai press conference on epidemic prevention and control, 7 new deaths were reported on April 18, ranging in age from 60 to 101 years old, of which 6 were over 75 years old , combined with coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension grade 3, sequelae of cerebral infarction, cardiac function grade Ⅲ, cerebral infarction, hypoproteinemia and other serious underlying diseases. One case (60 years old) under 75 years old was complicated with traumatic brain herniation, traumatic subdural hemorrhage, multiple cerebral contusions, traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage, and central diabetes insipidus.
The three new deaths on April 17 were all elderly, ranging in age from 89 to 91 years old, with acute coronary syndrome, diabetes, hypertension, brain Serious underlying diseases such as sequelae of infarction.
None of the 10 dead cases were vaccinated against the new coronavirus pneumonia virus.
The Economic Observer noted that on April 17, a major national emergency medical rescue team composed of 20 medical staff from Tongji Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology assembled and set off. Support Shanghai. This national major emergency medical rescue team is known as the “Sharp Knife Company”.
On April 7, received the notification from the Medical Treatment Team of the State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia, one of the “Eight Immortals of Severe Severe”, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University and the Critical Care Medicine The director of the department, Guan Xiangdong, went to Shanghai to provide support, and worked with national critical care experts to guide the medical treatment of new coronary pneumonia in Shanghai.
A person close to the Shanghai New Coronary Pneumonia Medical Treatment Team told the Economic Observer that the symptoms caused by the Omicron strain are milder than those caused by the delta strain, but this This is one of the challenges of Shanghai’s current medical treatment.
Wu Jinglei, director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said that as of April 15, the number of people aged 60 and above who had completed the entire course of the new crown vaccine in Shanghai was about 3.6 million. The rate is only 62%. The number of people who completed the booster vaccination, that is, the third shot, was about 2.18 million, and the completion rate of the booster shot was about 38%.
Wu Jinglei said that according to research and monitoring, Omicron variant strains are harmful to the elderly, especially those who have not been vaccinated and have chronic underlying diseases. The danger is still great. Although vaccination cannot completely stop the spread of the virus, it has a significant effect on preventing severe illness and death.